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Date
2023-04-13Type
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Abstract
Cities are multidimensional, multiagent, and multiobjective ar- tifacts with a complex, convoluted, and unexpected life hard to disentangle. Open and participatory approaches to city-mak- ing face the challenges of coordinating divergent opinions and agendas, informing all parties effectively, and avoiding manipulative legitimacy misappropriation. Computers can help in this endeavour to create more sustainable and resilient built environments. However, it involves issues of representa- bility and accuracy, trust and accountability, and accessibility and applicability. Here, the aim is to combine the navigational capabilities of computer models with a sociotechnical focus on the complexity of cities and their dwellers embedded in the visionary thinking of architecture and urban planning to evoke alternative scenarios. These urban simulations can expand human capabilities and explore alternative sustainable and resilient futures of cities collaboratively. They can enhance participation by transparently and comprehensively informing us about the effects of our choices to help behavioural change. Instead of relying completely on machine automation, natural intelligence is complemented with machine intelligence to take account of the difficult-to-quantify factors of complex socio-technical systems in urban life. This chapter illustrates this future through three tales about reformulating the way we occupy, design, and use space at different scales, based on new realizations of urban digital twins not as deterministic predictors, but as exploratory and participatory tools. Show more
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Book title
Future Cities - City Futures: Emerging Urban PerspectivesPages / Article No.
Publisher
TU Delft OPEN PublishingSubject
cities simulation; cities speculative design; Citizen participation; design fiction; hybrid intelligence; urban digital twinsOrganisational unit
03784 - Helbing, Dirk / Helbing, Dirk
Funding
833168 - Co-Evolving City Life (EC)
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